Nigel Worthington will take his enthusiastic team back to Slovenia this Friday this time to take Slovenia on in their opening Euro 2012 Group C fixture. They last played in Slovenia in a world cup qualifier in October 2008 but went down to the eventual qualifiers by 0-2, although they won the return fixture in Belfast six months later by 1-0. Those performances at least give N Ireland some optimism and there will be plenty of soccer punters backing them at 5/1 with VC Bet to win this latest encounter. Slovenia however are profound favourites to take the three points with odds of 8/13, with the draw being quoted at 13/5.
Slovenia v N Ireland LIVE on 3 September on Sky Sports 1 @ 1945
Most soccer fans know that Northern Ireland are in a poor run of form right now and have lost all four matches played in 2010, the latest of which was a 0-2 reverse against Montenegro last month. Defeats also came against Chile, Turkey and Albania, and although they were not disgraced in any of those matches, the fact that they did not score a goal in any is a worrying aspect for Worthington. He certainly would not be able to rely on a goalless draw in this match.
Euro 2012 Group C Odds Comparison
There is certainly plenty of quality in the Northern Ireland squad, with players of the calibre of Johnny Evans of Manchester United, Chris Baird and Aaron Hughes of Fulham as well as strikers Kyle Lafferty of Rangers and the evergreen David Healy now with Sunderland. Healy in fact has been made a 5/2 shot with Victor Chandler to be on the scoresheet in the match.
Slovenia failed to qualify from the Group stages in the World Cup Finals in South Africa, but only lost once (0-1 to England) and proved themselves a very capable team who will be going all out to qualify from what is a very tough Group C. In fact that defeat against England is their only reverse in 2010, a year which has seen them record four wins. In Zlatan Ljubajankic and Milovoje Novakovic they have two strikers who are regularly amongst the goals both for club and country. Johnny Evans and co will have to be at their very best to keep them out but it should be noted that they are the two favourites to net the opening goal of the game. Victor Chandler.com go 11/2 Novakovic and 7/1 Ljubajankic.
This is a very tough match for the Irish lads, it is not impossible however that they could come away with a draw, but the punters will no doubt be backing Slovenia, who should take the game possibly by the same 2-0 scoreline as they achieved the last time Northern Ireland were here. A 2-0 Slovenia win can be backed with vc bet at 6/1.
Selection 1: Slovenia win by 2-0 @11/2 (£25 bet wins £137.50)
Selection 2: Novakovic to score first goal @ 11/2 (£25 bet wins (£150)
Match Odds
8/13 Slovenia
13/5 Draw
5/1 Northern Ireland
Selected Correct Score Odds
1-0 Slovenia win – 9/2
2-0 Slovenia win – 6/1
2-1 Slovenia win 7/1
3-0 Slovenia win – 10/1
First Goalscorer Odds
11/2 Novakovic
7/1 Ljubajankic
7/1 Dedic
7/1 Matavz
11/1 Healy
12/1 Lafferty
12/1 Feeney
Odds kindly provided by Victor Chandler Online Bookmakers.
Posted: Thursday, 2nd September 2010
Author: Rodney Wise
Tags: european championship, euro2012, group c, northern ireland, victor chandler,
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